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Excerpt from The Language of the English Metrical Homilies: Inaugural Dissertation
It is as yet unproved which collection or collections were the source of Jacobus and perhaps it will never be known, as many valuable manuscripts have been destroyed by the religious fanatism of the reformation, though there is a slight hope that some old manuscripts are still hidden in some library.
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